Overview
Overview
If you’re seeking a career in allied health, but are not yet ready to commit to a particular profession, this course is an ideal stepping- stone to other courses and careers such as optometry, occupational therapy, medicine, pharmacy, physiotherapy and paramedicine.
This course delivers integrated studies in human biology, emphasising applied human structure and function. Your first year is interprofessional and taken with other health sciences students.
Your second year is designed to give you in- depth knowledge in selected subject areas, particularly in anatomy and physiology, and is combined with extensive laboratory-based learning. In your third year you can apply your learning to explore areas of current research in human biology and the life sciences.
Optometry pathway
The first-year optometry stream offers study units that enable you to seek admission into the Bachelor of Medical Science (Vision Science), Master of Optometry double-degree at Flinders University. This stream has a higher minimum ATAR of 90. Find out more.
Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.
What jobs can the Human Biology Preclinical course lead to?
Careers
- Anatomist
- Clinical technician
- Human biologist
- Laboratory technician
- Life scientist
- Physiologist
- Research scientist.
Industries
- Education
- Health technology
- Research centres and laboratories.
- Anatomist
- Life Scientist (General)
What you'll learn
- apply skills, concepts and principles in scientific investigation and professional practice in the context of the life sciences
- apply critical thinking skills in problem solving and generate innovative evidence-based solutions
- access, critically evaluate, synthesise and integrate information from a variety of sources relevant to the life sciences
- communicate effectively through framework of ethical scientific practice
- select, access and apply appropriate technologies to generate, retrieve, analyse and present data according to scientific principles
- sustain intellectual curiosity by updating knowledge and expertise in the life sciences through a range of learning activities
- recognise the international nature of scientific knowledge and the development of international standards of scientific practice
- demonstrate respect for cultural diversity in the practice of the life sciences
- demonstrate initiative, leadership and ethical practice when working independently and collaboratively